DCHP-3

milk house

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a farm outbuilding where milk is kept, usually under some degree of coldness.

Quotations

1796
To be disposed of, six years lease of . . . a good House pleasantly situated, comprising eight Rooms, Garrets, and Kitchen, with a Milk House Barns and Stables, adjoining.
1826
Milk will now hardly keep sweet some days from morning to night, through having a bad "milk house" (dairy) situated above ground and without shade.
1959
And then, too, they had no proper place to ripen the cream. The earthen rooms called milk houses came later.